Pocket for pool tables



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H. w. SINKEY AL POCKET FOR POOLTABLES Filed Nov. 1. 1923' Inventors, JV. W Sin/ray and 9. .0 y T, Q M m w w g h Patented Sept 23, 1924;.

HENRY W. SINKEY AND "WILLIAM L. TI'ITJ'EEER, U15

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POCKET FUR POOL TABLES.

Application filed. November To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that we, HENRY W. Srnnn'i and WILLIAM L. THURBER, citizens of the United States of America, and residents of Shell Rock, Butler County, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in Pockets for Pool Tables, of which the following is a specificatio.

Our .invention relates to improvements in pocket-irons and the like for pool tables, and the object of our improvements is to combine therewith easily mounted and deinounted means for cushioning an iron and for supporting a flexible pocket thereon, to insure durability and simplicity in construction.

This object we have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, as shown in the drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a View of the iron supporting body, the buifenplate thereon shown in cross section, and a flexible pocket hung thereon, and Fig. 9, is an elevation of the opposite side of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan of the pocket iron, Fig. l is a side elevation thereof, and Fig. 5 is a section thereof taken on the broken line 5-5 of Fig. 3.

The flexible pocket 6 made of leather expanded by being slitted at 7 is not specifically claimed, as any other kind of pocket, netted or otherwise may be suspended on the supporting member or iron 1 to receive pool balls during play. The lower end of the pocket is contracted and held around a spool 8 by a ring 9.

The body 1 of crescental shape, is hollow conical and has oppositely projecting pins 2 for mounting on a table. The body 1 is of malleable cast iron, of brass or other suitable material, and its conically formed hollow is covered by a rather thich elastic buffer-plate 11 made of sole-leather, rubber or other similar material and removably fastened by screws 12.

The outer or convex face of the iron 1 has around it arecess 3 of simicircular shape upon which is secured the upper part of a metal band 10 by means of screws a, the band thus being flush with the face of the iron 1 above. The band 10 as also the buffer-plate 1 may be otherwise shaped and fastened to the supporting iron body 1 without departing from this invention.

adapted to be 1, 1922:. Serial No. 872,149.

The lower part of the band 10 projects be low the iron body 1 and has several holes theretln'ough to receive the headed splitpins 5 which also traverse re mterin in the overlapping parts of too pocl s to secure these parts together separably.

The usual practise in the mounting of the pocket sack 6 upon the body 1 to carry its upper part at its outer side about the body 1 which with liners of leather are sewn tcgether with considerable diiiiculty on account of the irregular shape of said body 1 and the cramped positions about its lower edge of the several aggregated thiclnieses of the leather.

It will be seen that our method of mounting the top of the sack 6 upon said body 1 by separable connection to the semicircular band 10 is much more convenient when it becomes necessary to either mount or to demount the sack, and which can be effected by anyone without loss of time or expense.

Another: improvement lies in the use of the sole-leather butler-plate 11 in place of the usual thin soft leather sheet which is carried over the concavity of said body 1. This buffer-plate 11 is subjected to the fre quent concussions of the pool balls ere the latter enter the pocket 6, and can resist the consequent wear much longer than such a thin wear sheet as that above mentioned. In case of needed renewal of the buffer-- plate 11 because of its being worn out, it only necessary to remove the countersunk screws 12, whereas when the old arrange ment above described of mounting the saclr 6 upon the body 1 is used, much time is necessarily consumed in the operations of removal of the sack together with the worn out wear sheet, and in making up a new con nection.

It is to be understood that changes in the precise embodimentof invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit or protection of our invention.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

In combination, a pool table pocket-sack, an arcuate member having a conical inner face, having oppositely projecting pins removably secured upon a table, and having around its lower outer conical face of said arouute member with its face an arcuate groove, an arcuate strip upper edge flush with the top of the latter. removabiy secured in said groove, the upper Signed ai' Voterloo, Iowa, this 8th day of 10 margin of said pocket-sack being detaohably October, 1923.

secured upon a depending portion of said arcuawte strip, and a cushioning liner mount HENRY W. SINKEY.

ed removably upon and fitting the inner WILLIAM L, THURB'IZR. 

